Episode 153: Zombie Letters
The History of English Podcast
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The Ink Horn Debate
iam going to talk about that particular book in more detail in a future episode, because it was released a couple of decades later. But again, the earlier version was composed around the current point in our story, in the mid 15 hundreds. In both of hart's books, he took aim at these spellings based on the etymology of words. He specifically criticized the use of a b in the word doubt and the use of the m p in the word count.
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